Brave Julie’s year-long battle with Multiple Myeloma

Julie Waines knew something was wrong with her health when she started falling asleep at work and had to spend her lunch breaks taking a nap in her car. But the 65-year-old data processor, who works for Northern Powergrid in Stockton on Tees, had never heard of...

Storing our baby’s cord blood stem cells

The death of a work colleague from Leukaemia and another friend’s diagnosis with the disease was the spark mother Natalie Harrop needed to prompt her to bank the stem cells from her new baby’s umbilical cord. Natalie and partner Gary Hardwick-Bishop from Newport,...

Our research grant recipients call for more women in science

Women who are leading the way in researching treatments for blood cancers have thrown their backing behind the tenth anniversary of International Day of Women and Girls in Science and said it should be a spur to attract more females into the sector. Professor Cristina...

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